Egypt

Links

The following are links to some helpful and informative websites and databases about Ancient Egypt.

All links to English sites except where specified. Other languages, where available, are in parentheses after the main link: 🇪🇬 ar (Arabic / عربي), 🇩🇪 de (German / Deutsch), 🇫🇷 fr (French / français).

General

Digital Egypt for Universities by University College London
Egyptology Resources by Nigel Strudwick

Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) publications (free downloads for personal use) at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at U. Chicago (formerly the Oriental Institute)

Topics

Funerary Practices

The Theban Royal Mummy Project
Fantastic compilation by Wm. Max Miller of information regarding the Royal Mummies from dynasties 17-21, with extensive scholarly sourcing and bibilography.
ushabtis.com
Great resource for ushabtis and papyri.

History

pharaoh.se — The names of the pharaohs, with full titularies and citations

Language

Learn Hieroglyphs at Biblioteca Alexandina (🇪🇬 ar)
Great lessons and a helpful dictionary from the actual New Library of Alexandria!

Museum Collections Online

Metropolitan Museum of Art
This link searches for “highlights” of the collection; from there you can search the entirety.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Scholarly Resources and Databases

Ancient Egyptian Dictionary by Simon D. Schweitzer
Das altägyptische Totenbuch (🇩🇪 German only)
Countless Book of the Dead papyri, searchable by vignettes, presence of a particular spell, time period, etc. Note, the site is only in German.
Giza Digital Library at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Library of full-text searchable publications regarding the Giza Plateau
Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and Early New Kingdom
Just like the name says! At University of Mainz.
SITH Karnak Project (🇪🇬 ar, 🇫🇷 fr)
Système d’Indexation des Textes Hiéroglyphiques, not the Dark Side of the Force.
Database of scenes, monuments, and inscriptions at Karnak.
Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (🇩🇪 de)
“Treasurehouse of the Egyptian language”. A fantastic source for Egyptian words, including many citations of full sentences that use them.
Thot Sign List
Database of hieroglyphs, with information on their usage and distribution (chronologically and geographically).
Topographical Bibliography (Porter & Moss)
The reference work on Egyptian monuments with bibiography and annotations.

Disclaimer

I am not an Egyptologist. I do not have any academic credentials in the field; I do not claim to and I never have claimed to do so.

I have taught a college course on Egyptology “101” through a program that allowed undergrads, with faculty approval, to teach about subjects of interest to other undergrads as a free elective, and I have been very interested in ancient Egypt almost as long as I can remember, but I am not an Egyptologist and will never claim to be one (unless at some point I do obtain a graduate degree in the subject, but at this point in my life that is highly unlikely).

I claim only to be a person who is fascinated by ancient Egypt and has learned as much as they can about it in their spare time, enjoys sharing their enthusiasm about it with others, and definitely encourages anyone who finds themselves seriously interested to look at the sources I myself have learned from, and any others they may find.

In 2023 we find the notion of “expertise” has become almost a laughing matter among many people, but I do not consider it such, and that is why I want to be very clear about myself here. I am not an expert in this field, except when compared to the “average” person. My knowledge of Egypt pales next to that of any actual Egyptologist.

Any errors in these pages are mine alone unless I am correctly quoting from a source that is later proved to be wrong, but I will correct any mistakes as soon as possible if I am made aware of them.